SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In Korea, smartphone manufacturers are obliged to make camera shutter sounds audible even when the phone is set to silent mode. But more and more domestic consumers are seeking iPhones from abroad for their ‘quietness’, despite higher prices. When purchased directly from Hong Kong, an iPhone SE costs approximately [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE, the mobile messaging app of South Korean portal giant NAVER, has beaten its rivals in sales of applications available on Google Play Store for the past four years, a global industry tracker said Friday. In the four years up to March this year, the Korean messaging app topped others in [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of working couples and single-person households increases, new mobile applications that offer help with housework are on the rise. It’s a new form of Online-To-Offline (O2O) commerce followed by existing mobile applications for delivery, transportation, and real estate businesses. Two dozen applications, such as Miso (Smile) [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – With Kakao’s expansion into corporate messaging, the ways in which people consume business information are changing. Consumers no longer have to receive informational texts, call customer support or go through company webpages for information. These types of communication can all be handled by KakaoTalk, Kakao’s flagship messenger. Kakao Corporation [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A low-cost airliner offers more discounts to passengers purchasing their tickets through its mobile application. Eastar Jet, a budget carrier, announced that it will hold a promotional event giving up to a 77-percent special discount depending on the date and the time to the passengers booking their seats through [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Although the June 4 Local Elections are near at hand, the streets are quiet and calm compared with the previous elections when candidates were desperately trying to make them recognized using loud speakers mounted on the campaign vehicles. As the elections are to be held just after the tragic [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – An exhibition showcasing arts of “Apptists,” which means artists who creates with mobile applications, is going to be held in Seoul. Wookie, a company specializing in application education and marketing, has announced on May 9 that Seogyo Seoul Arts Space is hosting an exhibition “Art Passion of People” on [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – To prevent unintentional mobile application payments, various institutional strategies will be provided such as obligated password input and exposure of payment information notice while using the app markets. The Korea Communications Commission announced the regulatory plans on April 29 to reinforce safety measures of the mobile app [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The mobile applications are revolutionizing the ways of charitable giving to fun, engaging and simple. Now users can engage in philanthropic deeds and have fun at the same time just by connecting to mobile. “World Vision” has developed a mobile app called ‘My Kids,’ which is an [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic mobile application businesses started to buckle down and knock on the door of the American market. The companies which used to focus on pushing into Southeast Asian markets have changed their course and are steering their way to the United States. According to industry sources, IT [...]